![]() ![]() And the whole church went out and made a circle around her and started praying and singing. There was a graveyard out back, and she was jumping on the hoods of the cars. And she was screaming, ‘No! No!’ She crawled out of there on all fours. ![]() And this brother from the choir, he and the evangelist tried to get it out of her-to exorcise her. I had never heard before, but I knew it was evil. And one night at this revival in the mountains, she caught a demon. “I saw this one lady, she used to catch demons,” he continues. Began speaking in ancient tongues, “I was scared,” D’Angelo admits now, “because I could see how real it was. When D’Angelo’s older brother Rodney was 9, he caught the Holy Ghost. Revisit Janet Jackson's November 1997 Cover Story: 'JANET'S BACK!'Īll his life, D’Angelo has watched the faithful become occupied by spirits-what in Haitian voodoo ceremonies is called “being mounted.” For in a sanctified church-where women aren’t allowed to wear pants or makeup, male leaders are titled elders, church mothers stand alert in white nurse’s uniforms prepared to revive anyone overcome with Spirit, and service is several days a week and many hours long-if there is no mounting, there is no true salvation. But they wielded influence over the family because of their deep spirituality. In relatively rural Richmond, his grandfather forbade his family-on any level-with other dandified church members or Baptists. By the time D’Angelo was a small boy, his grandparents had broken away from the other Pentecostalists in Virginia. To call their religion ancestor worship would be blasphemous. Pentecostalists don’t call the way they worship by its ancient name. Sanctified. Pentecostalism is to Christianity what hip hop is to black music. The Holy Ghost coming down on the anointed. “…tarry…until ye be endued with power from on high” -Luke 24:49ĭ’Angelo was raised Pentecostal. ![]() dream hampton talks to R&B’s ruffneck Romeo about the inspiration behind his music: growing up in the church, the birth of his son, and channeling old souls. After five long years, D’Angelo has blessed us with his otherwordly sophomore album, Voodoo. ![]()
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